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The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife TV Anime Delayed to 2026
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The staff of the television anime of Iwatobineko's The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife (Tōmei Otoko to Ningen Onna: Sonouchi Fūfu ni Naru Futari) manga announced on Thursday the anime's main cast, main staff, and 2026 debut. The anime was originally slated to debut in 2025.
Pony Canyon also revealed a teaser video for the anime.
Mitsuho Seta (Solo Camping for Two scriptwriter, BELLE key animator) is directing the series and overseeing the series scripts. project No.9 is animating the series. Kairi Unabara (Witch Hat Atelier) is designing the characters. Yōichi Kadono is credited for "suits supervision." Nozomi Nakatani (Non Non Biyori Repeat, Peach Boy Riverside) is the sound director at Bit Grooove Promotion, and Ruka Kawada (Isekai Quartet, Is the order a rabbit?) is composing the music.
The anime will star Yōhei Azakami as Akira Tounome and Yuka Nukui as Shizuka Yakou.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Yakou Shizuka, a quiet and bashful woman, works at a detective agency. Her boss Tounome, who owns the company, is the gentlemanly type, kind and dapper, though he has an extra talent—he's invisible! His special ability is perfect for detective work, but he quickly comes to find it doesn't work on Yakou, who is blind and always knows if he's near. Charmed, Tounome is determined to get her to date him and isn't against using his many skills. Yakou's quirky coworkers, a contrarian human man and a sisterly beastwoman, kindly watch over her as she stumbles and blushes through the uncharted waters of office romance.
Iwatobineko launched manga on X/Twitter in 2021, and then began serializing the manga on pixiv Comic later that year.
Sources: Press release, The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife anime's website, Comic Natalie
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